A large collection of famous Christmas quotes and sayings

A large collection of famous Christmas quotes and sayings

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You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger. — Robert Paul

 

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?  —G.K. Chesterton

 

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness.  —Bob Hope

 

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four—wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. — Chris Brown

 

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half—forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.  —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

What is Christmas?  It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.  It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.  —Agnes M. Pahro

 

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. — Phyllis Diller

 

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.  —Robert Lynd

 

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faithknows this truly; let him rejoice. — Pope Paul VI

 

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. — Bing Crosby

 

Two things upon this changing earth can neither change nor end; the splendor of Christ's humble birth, the love of friend for friend. — Author Unknown

 

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. — Clement Clarke Moore

 

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. — E. B. White

 

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are:  Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.  —Author Unknown

 

This is the message of Christmas:  We are never alone.  —Taylor Caldwell

 

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh. — Kristen Wiig

 

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck

 

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. — Bill McKibben

 

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime.  Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.  —P.J. O'Rourke

 

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries.  —W.J. Cameron

 

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. — Robert Staughton Lynd

 

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.  —Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini

 

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. — Ernest Istook

 

The worst gift is a fruitcake.  There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.  —Johnny Carson

 

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C.  This wasn't for any religious reasons.  They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.  —Jay Leno

 

The sharpest memory of our old—fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. — Paul Engle

 

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. — Louisa May Alcott

 

The perfect Christmas tree?  All Christmas trees are perfect!  —Charles N. Barnard

 

The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.  —Joan Rivers

 

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.  —Author Unknown

 

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. — George Carlin

 

The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.— O. Henry

 

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas. — W. C. Jones

 

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. — Phillips Brooks

 

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.  —John Andrew Holmes

 

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. — Pope Benedict XVI

 

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.  —Burton Hillis

 

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted. — Olivia Williams

 

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. — Jerry Seinfeld

 

Some businessmen are saying this could be the greatest Christmas ever. I always thought that the first one was. — Art Fettig

 

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight. — Author Unknown

 

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. — Chris Van Allsburg

 

Santa Claus has the right idea — visit people only once a year. — Victor Borge

 

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! — Phyllis McGinley

 

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. — Frances Wright

 

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.  —Author Unknown

 

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents. — Bryce Courtenay

 

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty—fifth of December.  —Ogden Nash

 

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. — Marcelene Cox

 

One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present. — Author Unknown

 

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.  Don't clean it up too quickly.  —Andy Rooney

 

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  —Author Unknown

 

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.  —Kin Hubbard

 

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.  —Robert Kirby

 

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.  —Kin Hubbard

 

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  —Larry Wilde

 

My mother—in—law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in. — Les Dawson

 

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch. — Katharine McPhee

 

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family. — Julie Roberts

 

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. — T. S. Eliot

 

Maybe, Store He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. — Roy L. Smith

 

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. — Dr. Seuss

 

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  —Author Unknown

 

Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year's gifts. — Author Unknown

 

Mankind is a great, an immense family.  This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.  —Pope John XXIII

 

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.  —Johnny Carson

 

Love, Time, Child The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. — Charles Dudley Warner

 

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.  —Author unknown

 

like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. — Bob Schieffer

 

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.  —Deborah Whipp

 

life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. — Henry Van Dyke

 

Keep your Christmas—heart open all the year round. —Jessica Archmint

 

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas. — Martin Freeman

 

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens

 

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.  —George William Curtis

 

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. — Samantha Stosur

 

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.  —Charles Dickens

 

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for — I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.  —Kate L. Bosher

 

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster. — Andrea Arnold